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David's conscience troubled himd after he had taken a census of the troops. He said to the Lord, "I have sinned greatly in what I've done. Now, Lord, because I've been very foolish,e please take away Your servant's guilt."f

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When David got up in the morning, a revelation from the Lord had come to the prophet Gad, David's seer:

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"Go and say to David, 'This is what the Lord says: I am offering you three [choices]. Choose one of them, and I will do it to you.' "

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So Gad went to David, told him [the choices], and asked him, "Do you want threeg years of famine to come on your land, to flee from your foes three months while they pursue you, or to have a plague in your land three days? Now, think it over and decide what answer I should take back to the One who sent me."

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So the Lord sent a plague on Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and from Dan to Beer-sheba 70,000 men died.

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Then the angel extended his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it,i but the Lord relented concerning the destructionj and said to the angel who was destroying the people, "Enough, withdraw your hand now!" The angel of the Lord was then at the threshing floor of Araunahk the Jebusite.

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When David saw the angel striking the people, he said to the Lord, "Look, I am the one who has sinned; I am the onel who has done wrong. But these sheep, what have they done? Please, let Your hand be against me and my father's family."m

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David went up in obedience to Gad's command, just as the Lord had commanded.

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Araunah looked down and saw the king and his servants coming toward him, so he went out and bowed to the king with his face to the ground.

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Araunah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?" David replied, "To buy the threshing floor from you in order to build an altar to the Lord, so the plague on the people may be halted."o

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[My] king, Araunah gives everything here to the king." Then he said to the king, "May the Lord your God accept you."

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The king answered Araunah, "No, I insist on buying it from you for a price, for I will not offer to the Lord my God burnt offerings that cost [me] nothing." David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for 50 ouncesr of silver.